Jose Perez Beduya earned a BFA in Painting from the University of the
Philippines and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. He has received a fellowship to the Santa Fe Art
Institute. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in High Chair, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Boston Review.
His poetry chapbook Seem was published by High Chair press in Manila. He lives in Ithaca with his wife Jessica and
their cat Pablo. He is currently working on a full-length collection of poems.